Signing up will quickly send a confirmation email to your email id and once you confirm that you will be taken to a welcome “Follow Freely” where you will be asked to follow 5 people for getting started. Just press follow button against people you would like to follow

Once you start following people – you will start getting their Tweets in your twitter feed (notice arrow pointer)

Start interacting with your followers by posting tweets

Click the Retweet (RT) button – to give someone a shout out in the public should you like their share/post/idea! Everyone loves a RT!

@UserName in the beginning of a tweet is used for Repliese.g. @consultpri thank you for explaining twitter basics

@UserName in the middle of a sentence denotes a Mentione.g. so glad to have landed on @consultpri’s blog

The # symbol (Hashtag) – a super sweet little goodie that makes your tweet publicly searchable. It is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. Example – Thank You @consultpri for explaining Twitter #twitterbasics